The chair of the London Assembly Housing Committee has said TfL needs to do more to encourage building on the small plots of redundant land that it owns across the capital. Conservative's Andrew Boff said that it was good at encouraging large scale housing developments but are missing out on the smaller developers and individuals who might make use of the smaller plots. He was speaking ahead of a report published on the matter later this month.

This winter the Canal and River Trust will spend over £2.5 million on repairing the waterways, but say that with more people living on boats they'll soon have to find extra money to maintain the capital's canals.